Press Turnover in accommodation and food services in the 1^st half of 2022 almost twice as high as a year earlier

Press release No. 355 of 19 August 2022

Turnover in accommodation and food services, 1^st half of 2022 (provisional results, original values)
+98.5% in 1^st half of 2022 compared with 1^st half of 2021 (in real terms)
+109.2% in 1^st half of 2022 compared with 1^st half of 2021 (in nominal terms)
-22.1% in 1^st half of 2022 compared with 1^st half of 2019 (in real terms)
-13.1% in 1^st half of 2022 compared with 1^st half of 2019 (in nominal terms)

Turnover in accommodation and food services, June 2022 (provisional results, calendar and seasonally adjusted)
+3.1%, in real terms, on the previous month
+4.0%, in nominal terms, on the previous month
+36.9%, in real terms, on the same month a year earlier
+45.7%, in nominal terms, on the same month a year earlier

WIESBADEN – Turnover in accommodation and food service activities in the first half of 2022 was up a real (price adjusted) 98.5% and thus was almost twice as high as in the first half of 2021. Based on provisional figures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was a nominal (not price adjusted) increase in turnover of 109.2%. In the first half of 2021, the Covid-19 restrictions were not eased until late May 2021, whereas in the first half of 2022 first easing took effect already in February. However, real turnover in the first half of 2022 was still 22.1% below the level recorded in the first half of 2019, the pre-crisis year.

Long time series regarding the monthly statistics of accommodation and food service activities are provided in the table on Turnover in accommodation and food services (45213) in the GENESIS-Online database.